Project Title: Alta Vista Plantation: Preserving the lineage and identity of African-American Slaves in Wyatt Chapel Cemetery

SIGNIFICANCE:

Prairie View A&M University is the only known historically black university in Texas built on land formerly used as a plantation. In addition, the burial ground for the slaves who worked the land is located on the south end of the campus. Established in 1876, Prairie View A&M University became the first state supported College in Texas for African-Americans. Initially named State Agricultural & Mechanical College of Texas for Colored Youth, the University’s land – a plantation called Alta Vista – was purchased from Mrs. Helen Marr Kirby, the widow of the late Col. Jared Ellison Kirby. Col. Kirby owned more than 100 slaves by 1860 in Austin County. Burial land was set-aside for the slaves before Col. Kirby’s death. The historical cemetery, now called Wyatt Chapel Cemetery, houses numerous slaves laid to rest without grave markers. Based on Geophysical Research conducted by Rice University students in July 2007 and February 2008, numerous bodies were discovered in unmarked areas on Prairie View A&M University’s campus under trees, beside ponds, and along roads with global positioning and ground penetrating radar data. Through a nationally accessible website, the Alta Vista Plantation project will digitally preserve the marked and unmarked graves of African American Slaves in the Wyatt Chapel Cemetery. Oral history on John Kirby, federal slave census records, deed records, and Austin county tax rolls ranging from 1849 to 1864 listing Jared Kirby’s most valuable property as Negroes will also be digitally preserved. Within 12 years Kirby acquires 150 African-American slaves in Austin County worth $75,000. By 1850 Jared Kirby became the richest slave owner in Texas acquiring $285,000 as the owner of more than 8,000 acres. This project fills an important gap in academic communities because this particular type of research expands the need to document, research, and analyze what has survived the passage of time: property files that preserve and address the plight of African-American slaves. There is value and honor in bringing awareness to men and women whose bare hands affirmed their struggle. Slave property files are underrepresented in numerous academic communities. This astounding preservation project will also showcase Prairie View A&M University as sacred ground with respect to the slaves whose final resting place resides across different areas of the campus.

A. SIGNIFICANCE OF DIGITAL SLAVE CATEGORY COLLECTION:

The topics highlighted below represent valuable knowledge of the state and human culture of Texas following the African Slave Trade.

1. PROPERTY ASSESSMENT RECORDS The property assessment records below represent the assessment records that will be on display ranging from 1849 to 1864.

2. ALTA VISTA PROPERTY CHART

The following chart highlights significant traditional property categories ranging from 1849-1864 for Jared Kirby in Austin County.

Year Negroes Cattle Horses 1849

Number: 46 Value: $18,775

Number: 18 Value: $219

Number: 91 Value: $1,345

1850

Number: 55 Value: $20,000

Number: 60 Value: $200

Number: 45 Value: $1,000

1851

Number: 55 Value: $20,000

Number: 60 Value: $210

Number: 65 Value: $1,000

1852

Number: 63 Value: $22, 650

Number: 60 Value: $240

Number: 56 Value: $1,500

1853

Number: 100 Value: $20,000

Number: 100 Value: $400

Number: 100 Value: $3,000

1854

Number: 63 Value: $25,000

Number: 125 Value: $625

Number: 61 Value: $1800

1855

Number: 56 Value: 25,000

Number: 400 Value: $2,400

Number: 100 Value: $3,000

1856

Number: 64 Value: $30,000

Number: 600 Value: $3,600

Number: 80 Value: $2,400

1857

N/A

N/A N/A

1858

Number: 120 Value: $60,000

Number: 600 Value: $3,600

Number: 100 Value: $3,000

1859 Number: 100 Value: $60,000

Number: 800 Value: $4,800

Number: 150 Value: $5,300

1860

Number: 120 Value: $72,000

Number: 300 Value: $4,800

Number: 150 Value: $5,220

1861

Number: 140 Value: $70,000

Number: 500 Value: $2,000

Number: 100 Value: $5,000

1862

Number: 140 Value: $70,000

Number: 500 Value: $3,000

Number: 140 Value: $ 6,500

B. SIGNIFICANCE OF IDENTIFICATION PROJECT

1. UNMARKED SLAVE BURIAL GROUNDS This map highlights Prairie View A&M University’s cemetery. The black dots that are not surrounded with white headstone markers represent unidentified bodies of slaves.

PHOTO CREDIT: Rene DeLaFuente; Tammy Oldani; Stacey Rogers

1863

N/A

N/A N/A

1864

Number: 150 Value: $75,000

Number: N/A Value: $9, 460

Number: N/A Value: $9, 460

SUPPLEMENTAL RESOURCES FOR ALTA VISTA DIGITAL ARCHIVE:

ALTA VISTA HISTORICAL BOOKLET The Alta Vista booklet will highlight details about the Alta Vista plantation, burial ground, property deeds, and Kirby property assessment records. The booklet will also contain annotations and notes on preservation.

ALTA VISTA PHONE APPLICATION

The Alta Vista phone application will be available for convenient access and updates on the digital archive website. Registered Alta Vista users can download the Alta Vista application on Iphones and Androids.

ALTA VISTA PODCAST APPLICATION The Alta Vista Podcast will broadcast firsthand experiences and reactions from visitors who view the Alta Vista website.

SCHOLARLY BENEFITS

PHILOSOPHICAL STRATEGIES Critical studies of the mental state of the enslaved men and women on the Alta Vista Plantation can help scholars understand how land that physically confined African American men and women in the past intellectually released future African-American communities.

INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH An interactive digital research tool that tracks the past and present state of Prairie View A&M University’s land as a plantation can be used as an interdisciplinary research tool. The online interactive tool will allow students to pan and zoom in on the land as it appeared as a plantation compared to how the land is structured in its present state upon zooming out.

AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH

Scholars can explore unique agriculture customs presented by trailblazing agricultural professors- centered around the cultivation of the soil during the reconstruction era - provided to students who filtered into Prairie View A&M University as Agricultural Majors and compare it to current agricultural customs for the soil presently used on the campus.

HISTORICAL DATA ON CLASS AND RACE

Historical data on class race in the 19th century according to the gender and age of slaves, burial sites, and property assessment records can be assessed and analyzed by Scientists, Historians, Geologists, and English faculty scholars.

HISTORY, SCOPE, AND DURATION A collaboration between Kimberly Gay, head of the Reference and Information Services Department and Academic Reference and Instruction Librarian II at the John B. Coleman Library of Prairie View A&M University and Delicia Daniels, an English Adjunct Instructor at Prairie View began in the Fall 2016. Ms. Gay provided Ms. Daniels with information about current special and digital collections in the John B. Coleman Library. The special and digital collections include the following:

TEXAS STANDARD-PORTAL TO TEXAS HISTORY: The John B. Coleman Library has been

designated as a “contributing partner” to the new “digital archive” by special invitation from the coordinators of the UNT “Portal to Texas History” project.

THE BARACK OBAMA SPECIAL COLLECTION: List of the Titles currently available for “in-

house-use-only,” at the Reserve Desk in the Circulation Department.

DELCO COLLECTION: Consists of official documents, reports, memorabilia, correspondence,

letters, memos, newspaper clippings and photographs.

HYMAN COLLECTION: Includes journal articles, manuscripts, scholarly reprints, newspaper

clippings, historic election results, and quotations related to Police Powers, Reformers, Reconstruction, Urban War Powers, and Constitutional Law.

DR. ROBERT KING COLLECTION: Donation of over one thousand volumes from Dr. King’s

personal collection.

PRAIRIE VIEW INTERSCHOLASTIC LEAGUE: This collection is a repository of documents,

photographs, records, etc. relating to the PVIL and its history, from its inception in 1920.

-http://www.pvamu.edu/library/special-collectionsarchives/

The Alta Vista Digital Archive was created out of the need to extend this collection by preserving and promoting the culture of class and categorization surrounding the slaves on the Alta Vista plantation. Prairie View A&M University has X number of first generation African American students who attend classes on soil that has been cultivated by their ancestors. The Alta Vista digital archive will jump start a future collection of historic digital and oral material made available to African-American students who wish to learn their roots. This archive will also serve as a model for additional archives to preserve multiple cultures such at Latin Americans and Asian Americans at Prairie View A&M University.

WORK IN PROGRESS GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE COURSES AVAILABLE FOR SUPPLEMENTAL LONG TERM USE

WITH ALTA VISTA DIGITAL ARCHIVE

1. ENGL 2263 – English Literature to 1800 2. ENGL 2283 – Intro to African Lit

3. ENGL 2423 – American Literature to 1865 4. ENGL 3053 – Survey of African-American Literature 5. ENGL 3063 - Studies in African-American Literature 6. HIST 1313 – U.S. to 1876 7. HIST 1323 – U.S. 1876 to Present 8. HIST 1333 – History of Texas 9. HIST 2313 – The U.S. – 1492-1832 10. HIST 2323 – The U.S. 1837- 1898 11. HIST 2613 – African History

MODEL FOR LONG TERM ORAL AND DIGITAL COLLECTION The model for the future Oral collections will stem from an EduTube web Channel and Listening station implemented at Houston Community College.

The Listening Station combines the functionality of a video camera, microphones, and laptop computer into one simple set-up, with an easy to use app to guide users through the storytelling recording process. A unique iPad-based recording station and app as a public kiosk for people to share stories with a listener, hold a conversation, or be a part of an interview. The station includes prompts, sample stories for ideas, and audio or video recording.

-Houston Community College

https://edutube.hccs.edu/media/Introducing+the+Listening+Station/0_pf2bjlxf

The Digital archive will be modeled after The African-American Library at the Gregory School.

The African-American Library at the Gregory school will collect materials to provide historical information that documents and focuses on the experience of African American residents, businesses, institutions and neighborhoods throughout Houston and the surrounding region.

-The African American Library at the Gregory School

https://sites.google.com/view/gregoryschool/divisions/archival-collections

FUTURE COLLABORATORS

FRANK JACKSON: Mayor Jackson earned a four-year scholarship as a Naval Science student and graduated from Prairie View A&M University in 1973 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Geography. He was commissioned an Ensign in the United States Navy serving on active duty for eight years and was promoted to the rank of Captain (Officer Grade 06) in the United States Naval Reserves in 1995. Mayor Jackson began his employment at Prairie View A&M University in 1982 as Associate Counselor for Admissions. He has served the University in various positions and currently serves as Governmental Relations Officer. He has also served on various athletic committees from 1987 - 1999 including the Athletic Council and served as the first Chairman of the Prairie View A&M University Sports Hall of Fame Executive Committee (1987). Under his guidance, the Executive Committee was charged with laying the foundation for Sports Hall of Fame Constitution and By-Laws. The first draft was reviewed on March 18, 1987 and the first Induction Ceremony took place on June 6, 1987 at the Adam's Mark Hotel in Houston, Texas. Mayor Jackson has an impressive record as an enthusiastic supporter of the university athletic program, an author and active public community advocate and leader. He has been a champion for PVAMU student voting rights which culminated in a landmark court decision in favor of the student's right to choose their place of residence. He served on Prairie View, Texas' City Council for 12 years and has since served as Mayor for five terms since 2002. He has received many awards and commendations and is frequently requested for public speaking engagements throughout the nation pertaining to the history of Prairie View A&M University and Texas.

MIGUELL CEASAR: I have served as an Archivist and/or assistant manager at the Houston Public Library’s African American Library at The Gregory School since 2013. I have led and assisted research, acquisition, preservation, cataloging, and digitization efforts for local, state, and national historical materials. Archival materials were traced and acquired through outreach efforts that include a Donor Appreciation program, public speaking, nursing homes, churches and solicitation of more than 150 individuals and organizations by phone, email, and direct contact. During my tenure with The African American Library, I have successfully processed more than 60 collections, updated and produced numerous finding aids for new and existing collections using Archivist Tool Kit, and Microsoft word and other formats. I was employed as an Assistant Archivist with the John B. Coleman Library on the campus of Prairie View A&M University located in Prairie View, TX for four years. As an Assistant Archivist, I collected preserved and organized manuscripts, photographs, media and artifacts from the rich history of Texas’ second oldest state sponsored institution for higher learning, first for African Americans

METHODOLOGY – WORK IN PROGRESS Web server: The Alta Vista digital archive collection will be created through Contentdm, software that manages and publishes digital files. An Archivist Toolkit will serve as a secondary method of preservation. The model for the structure is below:

U.S. Government Digital Preservation Strategies

Administration of repository architecture in compliance to the OAIS

Functional Model (ISO 14721:2012) PREMIS, MODS, and METS metadata persisted within archival packages Active monitoring of file formats Preservation of at least two archival copies of all information content in two

separate geographic locations Weekly backups of content over a redundant array of independent disk

storage systems Secondary standby disaster recovery instance Virus-scanning of all submitted content File fixity checking Secure systems certification

www.govinfo.gov

WEBSITE DESIGN:

Title Alta Vista Plantation and Slave Archives

Introduction Overview of Alta Vista neighborhood, Alta

Vista Plantation, Photographs, Files, and Maps

Digital Photographs

Graveyard Headstones and Burial Sites Module Tab 1

Digital Files Property Assessment Records, Deed Records, Slave Census Schedules

Module Tab 2

Digital Maps Map 1: 1800 Plantation Landscape Map 2: Current Prairie View A&M University Landscape Map 3: Burial Ground for slaves

Module Tab 3

Booklet Overview of supplemental booklet highlighting Alta Vista plantation, slaves, and burial grounds

Module Tab 4

Surveys Track Visits to website

CELL PHONE APPLICATION DESIGN:

Template Choose template that includes Prairie View A&M University Logo, Mission, and Library

Content Upload Alta Vista Preservation Photographs files, and Maps

Publish Publish Final Files

PODCAST SETUP: Template Choose template that includes Prairie View

A&M University Logo

Content Cover Interview Objectives Conduct Interviews

Publish Publish Interviews WORKPLANS Currently, I have identified deed and census records pertaining to Jared E. Kirby. I plan on visiting the Clayton Genealogy Library in Houston, Texas to obtain additional slave schedules and county tax rolls. Once these records are collected, I plan on traveling to The Waller County Courthouse to obtain deed records. Land appraisal maps that correspond to Kirby’s deeds will also be assessed and printed.

Kimberly Gay, Head of Reference and Information Services at Prairie View A&M University’s library: John B. Coleman Library, will assist me with the structure and design for the visual appendix maps. Appendix maps include the 1800 plantation landscape, the current plantation landscape, and a timeline range highlighting major events from Prairie View A&M University. According to 1800 land appraisal records, a map of Kirby’s land/plantation will be structured. A current map of Prairie View A&M University’s land will be drawn to compare and contrast to the 1800 plantation map. My proposed research will advance the Alta Vista project by providing updated and accurate Kirby family and slave records as a means to highlight names, ages, and relationships that will leave a legacy of essential documented history. DETAILED WORK PLANS The following schedule represents full and part time work during the award period.

September 2019

Clayton Genealogy Library Houston, Texas

Collect and digitize County Tax Roll Records and Federal Slave Schedules from Jared E. Kirby

October

2019

Waller County Courthouse Hempstead, Texas

Collect and digitize Deed Records from Jared E. Kirby

November

2019

Prairie View, Texas

Research Interviews with Kirby Descendants.

December

2019

Prairie View, Texas Map and Digitize Kirby Land Appraisals, Slave Cemetery, and Burial Ground

January 2020

Prairie View, Texas Collect Files, Bind Alta Vista Booklet, publish digital files, create Alta Vista app, and Alta Vista podcast app.

February

2020

Prairie View, Texas Disseminate Alta Vista Booklet in Public Black History Program

A brief chapter outline of the Alta Vista booklet is below: INTRODUCTION: The Introduction will include commentary from experts whose research directly assisted the Alta Vista Project. The introduction will cover the necessity of preserving culture and heritage. A timeline showcasing major events ranging from Alta Vista’s transition as a plantation to an educational Institution for African-Americans.

Chapter 1: History of Alta Visa Plantation: This chapter will explore the origins of Alta Vista Plantation through deed deals between Kirby and a select number of land owners. The land is spread across at least 8,000 acres in Austin County. The plantation house stands two stories tall with a haunting white glow. Chapter 2: Jared Kirby:

This chapter examines the life of Jared Kirby. Jared Kirby, a Colonel in the confederate army obtains wealth as the Master of Alta Vista Plantation. By 1861, his property includes 100 horses for $5,000, 500 cattle for $2,000, 200 goats for $300, and miscellaneous property for $4,000.

Chapter 3: Wyatt Chapel Cemetery: This chapter covers Wyatt Chapel Cemetery and Col. Kirby’s request to set-aside as a

burial ground for his slaves. With assistance, from Rice University students, bodies are discovered with ground penetrating radar years later across various areas on Prairie View A&M University’s campus.

Chapter 4: Kirby’s Most Valuable Property: Negroes This chapter documents Kirby’s slaves, slave property charts, and federal slave

census records. County tax rolls list the value of Kirby’s most valuable property: Negroes. Within 12 years Kirby acquires 150 African-American slaves in Austin County worth $75,000.

Chapter 5: Oral Histories This chapter will display oral stories from slave descendants on the Kirby plantation detailing first hand accounts of their lineage. Appendix A: Map 1: 1800 Plantation Landscape Map 2: Current Prairie View A&M University Landscape Map 3: Burial Ground for slaves Appendix B: References and Resources SUSTAINING PROJECT OUTCOMES

1. Communities will discuss the history of the Alta Vista Neighborhood

2. Communities will discuss the history of the Alta Vista slave communities

3. Ignite community discussion about preservation 4. Plan advertising campaign for Alta Vista Site and

Preservation: newsletter: the panther television: Channel 55 radio: KPVAMU website: www.pvamu.edu

STAFF INVESTIGATORS PRINCIPLE INVESTIGATOR:

Delicia Daniels is a poet, essayist, and biographer. She received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in English from Dillard University and her Master of Fine Arts Degree in Creative Writing from Chicago State University. Ms. Daniels is the recipient of the Sam Taylor Fellowship Award and the Pearl Cleage Scholarship Award. She had the privilege of being appointed to the Advisory Board for the African Americans in Texas Travel Booklet, sponsored by the Texas Historical Commission. Ms. Daniels teaches English Composition at Prairie View A&M University and Houston Community College. Her publications appear in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African-American Women Writers, Thin Air Magazine, Callaloo and several other journals and anthologies. The Language We Cry In is her first publication with Stephen F. Austin State University Press.

CO- PRINCIPLE INVESTIGATOR:

Kimberly Michelle Gay is Head of the Reference and Information Services Department and Academic Reference and Instruction Librarian II at the John B. Coleman Library of Prairie View A&M University- A part of the Texas A&M University System. Gay served as the Interim/Acting Head of the Reference and Information Services Department 2013-2014. She celebrated her 12th year of working for the Texas A&M System and eleven years with PVAMU this year. Gay is

the Library Faculty Liaison on the main campus for: College of Business; Department of Languages and Communications, College of Education; University College and College of Agriculture and Human Sciences. PVAMU service committees includes: the Student Conduct Hearing Board; Academic Affairs Technology Council, Organization Review Board; Women’s Leadership Council and QEP-iREAD Academic Reading Coach. She has co-edited/published three custom-made textbooks for the Department of Languages and Communications >> Public Speaking Handbook with additional readings- Pearson Custom Publishing, 2008, 2010, 2011. Gay attended four HBUC Mellon Grant Information Literacy Leadership Institute Fellowships. She serves on 16 John B. Coleman Library Committees and chairs three. Editor of Campus-Wide Coleman Library Connections the Library electronic and print newsletter 2007-2010. She graduated from Texas Woman’s University in Denton, Texas Magna Cum Laude 3.89 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mass Communication (Print Journalism) in 2003. She went on to receive a Master's Degree in Library Science and Information Studies, Suma Cum Laude 4.0 from TWU as well in May 2006. FINAL PRODUCT AND DISSEMINATION The final product will be supported by the award: Two thousand standard sized booklets with appendix maps. The dissemination of the Alta Vista website and booklet will be free and open to the public (ie. neighboring high schools, libraries, and community colleges). The Alta Vista project will be distributed in the form of a historic presentation. The program will be held in the Agriculture and Science Building on campus. BUDGET – WORK IN PROGRESS

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